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Confessions of faith in early modern England

In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography. Brooke Conti positions these texts as products of the era's tense political climate.Read more...

Note on Spelling and Punctuation Introduction. Controversy and Autobiography PART I. OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE Chapter 1. James VI and I and the Autobiographical Double Bind Chapter 2. Conversion and Confession in Donne's Prose PART II. PERSONAL CREDOS Chapter 3. Milton and Autobiography in Crisis Chapter 4. Thomas Browne's Uneasy Confession of Faith PART III. LOYAL DISSENTS? Chapter 5. John Bunyan's Double Autobiography Chapter 6. James II and the End of the Confession of Faith Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Brooke Conti.

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"Learned yet also elegantly written... This is a superb work that models how historical contextualization can be combined with acute close reading of notoriously difficult texts."-Modern Philology "Conti's book reminds us of how complex and layered religious experience was for the early moderns, from ably working around the epistemological obstacles to knowing their faiths, to a much richer assessment of how they explored and constructed them."-Studies in English Literature "Brooke Conti's claims are fresh, insightful, and important. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England allows us to see her texts in a new way, and as connected to the larger issue of trying to write about one's private religion in a period when religion was public, and one's relation to the state religion was a matter of importance, fraught with danger."-Achsah Guibbory, Barnard CollegeRead more...